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BAHASA INGGRIS
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You have invited your frien over for dinner. Your child sees your friend reach for some cookies and says,”
Better not take those, or you’ll get even bigger.” You’re embarassed that your child could speak so rudely. However,
you should consider that your child may not know how to use the language appropriately in social situation and
did not mean harm by the comment. An individual may say word clearly and use long, complex sentences with
correct grammar, but still have a communication problem if he or she has not mastered the rule of social language
known as pragmatics. Adults may also have difficulty with pragmatics, for example, as a result of a brain injury
or stroke. An individual with pragmatic problems may say inappropriate or unrelated things during conversations,
tell stories in a disorganized way, or have little variety in language use. It is not unususal to have pragmatic
problems in only a few situations. However, if problems in social language use occur often and seem inappropriate
considering the child’s age, a pragmatic disorder may exist.
Pragmatic disorders often coexist with other language problems such as vocabulary development or grammar .

01. The restatement of the last sentence of 03. The word “embarassed” in the text is closest in
the passage is that …. meaning to ....
(A) vocabulary is basic in grammar (A) proud
(B) language problems are essentially satiric (B) happy
(C) pragmatic disorders always exist as a single (C) akward
entity (D) fast
(D) problems such as vocabulary and grammar (E) slow
frequently come along with pragmatic disorders
(E) linguist can solve pragmatic disorders 04. The organization of the text is ....
(A) comparison
02. The topic of the paragraph is … (B) problem solving
(A) pragmatic disorders (C) paradox
(B) inappropriate politics (D) exposition
(C) logics (E) division and classification
(D) incorrect grammar
(E) vocabulary problems
The thought of a car or truck that can drive itself is at once both exciting and frightening. Autonomous
vehicle navigation, as the technology is known, may make life more concenient if it allows people to kick back and
enjoy a good book or movie while their cars guide themselves through rush-hour traffic. However, what happens
if it starts to rain or if traffic suddenly picks up?
If the technology is to work at all, it will have to be completely safe on all roads, under all speeds, and in all
weather. Therein lies the challenge: if cars and trucks are to drive autonomously, they will need futuristic sensors
and advanced computing capabilities to respond to ever changing road conditions.
Perhaps the most extreme exampke of ever-changing conditions is a war zone where roads may be reduced
to rubble and vehicles are natural targets of attack. Rolling out fleets of self-navigating vehicles for the military is
an enticing idea because it could keep thousands of troops out of harm’s way. Nevertheless, will it be possible for
these vehicles to operate in war zones? This question was the inspiration for a recent Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contest aimed at spurring the development of such technologies.
In late 2007, the DARPA urban Challenge offered a $ 3.5 million purse to competitirs who could design the
fastest and safest vehicles that could traverse a 60-mile urban course in moving traffic in less than 6 hours. The
contestants’ veheicles were unmanned and had to complete a simulated military supply mission, manouvering
through a mock city environment, avoiding obstacles, merging into moving traffic, navigating traffic circles, and
negotiating intersections – all while conforming to California’s driving rule. 0f the 89 international teams, only
six finished in the allotted time.
Wende Zhang of general Motors was part of the team that designed the winning vehicle, which finished
with the fastest time – an average speed of approximately 13 miles per hour. The GM team drew upon existing
technology already offered in some oftheir vehicles that can assist in parking or detect lanemarkers and trigger
alarms if the drivers are coming too close to the shoulder of the road. For the DARPA challenge, they developed
a more sophisticated package of sensors that included GPS coupled with camera and a laser-ranging LIDAR
system to guide and correct the vehicle’s route through the city. In Baltimore, Zhang will present GM’s patented
new methods for detecting lanes and correcting a vehicle’s route w, which helped them with the challenge.

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 Though they won people should not look for robotic chauffers immediately. The technology must provve
reliable in many different road, weather, and lighting conditions. Still, says Zhang, a commercially-viable
autonomous driving product may be available in the next decade.

05. The best title for this passage is .... 08. The word “obstacle” in paragraph 4 is closest in
(A) Future War Zone Vehicles meaning to which of the following?
(B) A Great Leap in Automotive Industry (A) Problems
(C) Research on the Development of Unmanned (B) Difficulties
vehicles (C) Obstructions
(D) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (D) Burdens
(E) The Triumph of General Motors in a (E) Nuisances
Competition
09. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
06. What is stated about autonomous vehicle (A) Futuristic sensors and advanced computing
navigation in the passage? abilities will be essential features of the
(A) It cannot function if it runs out of electricity autonomous vehicle
(B) Bad weather and traffic jam are minor problems (B) Using self-navigating vehicles in the army will
for autonmous vehicles reduce the numbered of injured soldiers in wars
(C) Sixty teams managed to design autonpous (C) The DARPA Urban Challenge looked for the
vehicles n DARPA competition fastest and safest autonomous vehicle
(D) Autonomous vehicle will be equipped with a (D) The GM team’s new detecting and navigating
state-of-the-art navigating system methods played an important role in its victory
(E) Robotic chauffers will be ready in the near future (E) The U.S. army is already well-prepared and
ready to launch unmanned vehicles in current
07. It can be inferred from the passage that the DARPA wars
Urban Challenge ...
(A) was meant to search for an advanced manned
navigation sysytem
(B) was only open for American teams
(C) gave a trivial prize for a winning team
(D) is to develop self-navigating vehicles for all sorts
of road conditions
(E) was not very competitive
Measles, a childhood disease, __10__ sufferings to __11__ for thousands of years. However, the search for an
effective measles vaccine, lasted two hundred years and has finally ended in success. Now, for the first time,
measles is a __12__ disease. You may ask,” How is this important to children?” Every year measles kills twice as
many Americans as polio now does. More children die from measles than from any other childhood disease.
Also complications of some degree __13__ in about one child out of six. Most __14__ include pneumonia and ear
disorders. Another after-effect of measles-brain damage is less common, but it can have such serious
consequences that it __15__ special attention.
10. .... 13. ....
(A) causes (D) has been caused (A) occur (D) occurring
(B) caused (E) causing (B) occurs (E) occurrence
(C) has caused (C) to occur

11. .... 14. ….

(A) industry (D) hotels (A) contracts (D) complications
(B) mankind (E) restaurants (B) purchasesexports (E)
(C) machinery (C) imports

12.
(A) prevent (D) preventable 15. ….
(B) prevents (E) to prevent (A) cooks (D) writes
(C) prevention (B) deserves (E) swims
(C) sends

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